Re: Languages with the essential parts removed (was: Greek plosives)
| From: | <veritosproject@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 3, 2006, 1:34 |
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John Verticle wrote:
>Stuff I don't want to copy and paste, but basically is asking whether
wholly isolating is OK.
No, I meant sort of like Mandarin Chinese, where you can have combined
roots (zhong guo ren = China country person = Chinese person =
Kiinalainen etc.) but the roots would be more combined. So on your
list of words derived from "kirja", you might have:
kirja = kirja
kirje = kirja paksi (book page?)
kirjala = kirja laanen (book place?)
Or derived from "suomi":
suomi = suomi
suomalainen = suomi mitunen (Finland person?)
suomalaiset = suomi mitunen missa (Finland person many?)
In my lack of Finnish knowledge, I made up some roots; put whatever
you want there. Basically it's just taking a Finnish word (I'm just
going to make one up: paatietosanakirjalanissa, literally
"chief.compendium.word.book.place.1SING-POS.INSIDE :) and dividing it
into its component parts. Same roots but a different structure.
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